Yahoo Finance April 20, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the U.S., wreaking both economic and health-related havoc on the American workforce.
In the four weeks leading up to April 11, the number of unemployment claims topped 22 million. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), that means that roughly 9.2 million workers likely lost their employer-sponsored health insurance during that time.
“As people continue to lose their jobs, which we expect that they will do unfortunately, we’re going to see losses in health insurance coverage,” Ben Zipperer, an economist at EPI, told Yahoo Finance. “That’s because in the United States, we’ve chosen as a country, unfortunately, to tie access to health insurance with employment.”
He continued: “If we avoided...
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